Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel May Come to Xbox One, PS4

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel is sticking to an Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC launch this Fall due to the popularity of those platforms, said Gearbox Studio head Randy Pitchford, but that doesn’t mean the loot-based FPS RPG won’t ever make an appearance on Microsoft and Sony’s next-gen — now curren-gen — platforms.

“If fans say, ‘Hey, we’d really like this on a next-gen console,’ well, we’ll think about that,” 2K Australia studio head Tony Lawrence recently told Gamereactor TV.

Currently, The Pre-Sequel is being developed on the older Borderlands 2 engine. The studios aren’t making any promises to upgrade to the Xbox One or PlayStation 4 just yet, their argument being that the player install base isn’t large enough to warrant the extra development time and cost. According to franchise director Matt Armstrong, “requiring people to buy new hardware to play the middle [game in] a trilogy … feels a little disingenuous.”

But depending on the game’s performance and the number of players upgrading to new hardware, it’s not out of the question that a next-gen port may happen.

Armstrong added, “We’ll see how people react to the game, how much fun they have and whether or not everybody moves on to the next gen fully next year.”

Would you rather play The Pre-Sequel on your Xbox One or PlayStation 4?

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel launches October 14. While you wait, check out this E3 2014 gameplay walkthrough:

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Thanks, Polygon

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